Riding in to Sydney this morning in Peak hour Traffic down the Pacific Highway.

Traffic starts to speed up a bit through Turramurra and I'm in the gutter lane.

Bird in a little car decides to change lanes on me.

Quarter of the way in,she suddenly corrects herself.

I caught up with her later and asked her what alerted her to the fact that I was there.

"I heard you" she said.

I might not have made it in today if it wasnt for the pipes.

"Loud pipes save Lives"

Fuck the Bloody Regulators in this country that "We the Tax Payer" pay for.

 If only the authorities weren't present at the same time, then they would have heard the same thing from the driver. Seems stupid not to have loud pipes, I know there are limits but if they have potentially saved someone from coming to grief, well then isn't that a good thing? Glad that you made it to work in one piece Wimbo. It's a risk we take every time we decide to jump on our steed.

I agree. When I ride in traffic, I've got three lights on, and always a gear higher to make as much noise as possible. I call it riding defensively!

It's an old saying, but worth it's weight in gold....loud pipes DO save lives.....

Got defected about a year ago. Put the stock pipes on. After getting the canary removed at the motor reg inspection station got less than a km down the road before a cage moved over on me.

With the pipes back on it just never happens, funny how drivers look around and check mirrors when they can hear you.

riding on mona vale rd this morning and pass an unmarked cop car parked on side of road .........

2k later he pulls me over .

numberplate recognition software identified that my bike was unregistered

$596 fine

so there ya go

*insert sad looking smilie here*

And?
WTF has that got to do with this FFS?

We need to have a "take a polly for a ride" day and, With quiet pipes on, scare the pants off em when joe public keeps pulling out and cutting in front of us on our bikes.
When we stop and see how pale they are, tell them it happens less when we had louder pipes on. Then you might get them on our side. In theory- great. In prictice- never will it happen.

I like ya self are only heard first then seen I will make noise purposely when in tight traffic only 2 advise motorists awareness of bike it works ,my bike is loud due to kit install made bike crackle and when im on highway hittin a few nots cars hear me and move over before im there its a lane clearer I kid u not and im not takeing off well firstly gotta catch loud pipes man ,anyway paid federal tax on them wen bought so cant be illegal or couldn't be sold and that's a fact of law

its a bit like da wild west really the whole thing stinks of gov regime tellin there hoods wif badges here ya go ,go out an get as much money by writein tikets an us silly cunts will jus pay it wat ya gunna do jump up an down get pissed off then go to bed wake up an new day ,then deal with watever shit ya been told to make bike normal ,never used to be to that  bad ya no but now its all changein ,I jus flaunt rules everyday an don't giv a fuk ,o wat about my ferarri no ones pullin me over coz its to loud wen im on gas an its loud mus be different rules 4 dat sorta thing ,its us guys on bikes r like outlaws of da west baddies wif guns ,but people in da stagecoachs r allright people that's how I look at it ,an da sherrifs always lookin 4 da baddies SHINGLES got away today again